Chap. 3. The HISTORY oftje PURITANS. 457 Soon after died the famous Mr. Thomas Brightman, author of a corn- Kin%7amesi. tnentary upon the Song ofSolomon, and the Revelations: He was born at ` Nottingham, and bred. in Queens College Cambridge, where he became a Death of champion for non- conformity to the ceremonies. Hewas afterwards pre- Mr. Bright- fentedby Sir John Olbourne to the reftoryofHaunes in Bedfordfhire, fpend- 'nan. ing the remainder of his days in hard ftudy, and confiant application to his charge, as far as his confcience would admit. His life, lays Mr. Fuller, B. X. p. 5a, was angelical ; his learning uncommon; he was a clofe fludent, of little ftature, and fuch a wafter of himfelf, that he was never known to be moved with anger. His daily difcourfe was againft epifcopal government, which he prophefied would fhortly be overthrown, and the government of the foreign proteftant churches erefted in its place. He died fudenly upon the road, as he was riding with Sir ,fohn Olbourne in his coach, by a fudden obfiruétion of the liver or gall, Aug. 24. 1607. cetatis 51. The king having given the reins of the church into the hands of the X609. prelates and their dependants, became zealous camp th there in return blh ions /Ie dvánees for the prerogative, both in the pulpit and from the preis. Two books tive. frer were publifhed this year, which maintained the molt extravagant maxims of arbitrary power ; one wrote by Cowed, L. L. D. and vicar general to the archbifhop, wherein he affirms, a. That the king is not bound by the laws, or by his coronation oath. 2. That he is not obliged to call parliaments to make laws, but maydo it without them. 3. That it is a great favour to admit the confent of the fubjeft in giving fubfidies. The other, by Dr. Blackwood a clergyman, who maintained that the Englífh were all haves from the Norman conquefl. The parliament would have brought the authors to juftice, but the king protrited them by proroguing the houles in difpleafure ; and to f.upply his neceffities began to raife money by monopolies of divers manufaftures, to the unfpeakable prejudice of the trade of the kingdom. This year died the famous 7acobus Arminius, divinity profeffor in the Death and univerfity of Leyden, who gave birth to the famous fed ftill called by his Aramiñú of name. He was born at Oudewater, 156o. His parents dying in his in- fancy, he was educated at the publick expence by the magiftrates of Am- lderdam, and was afterwards chofen one of the miniflers of that city in the-year 1588. Being defined by one of the profeffors of Franequer to confute a treatife of Beza's upon the fupralapfarian fcheme of predeßina- tion, he fell himfelf into the contrary fentiment. In the year a600, he was called to fucceed yunius in the divinity chair of Leyden, and was the fait who was folemnly created doctor of divinity in that univerfity. Here his notions concerning predejiination andgrace, and the extent of Chri redemption, met with a powerful oppofition fromGomarus and others. But though his difciples encreafed prodigioufly in a few years, yet the trou- Vor.. L N n n hies
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